Boy, walks home from preschool

May 20, 2009

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are trying to figure out how a 4-year-old boy slipped away from his preschool and walked home about a mile away.

School officials aren’t releasing many details about Monday’s incident at Greenway Early Childhood Center because they are still investigating. But school officials have released a statement confirming the boy, Maurice Floyd, somehow left the school.

His mother, Markeya McCary, says she was shocked when her son showed up at home unexpectedly.

School officials had already begun to search for him when the learned he was made it home about 10 minutes later.

McCary says her son told her he left because someone tried to lock him in a closet. School officials are still investigating that claim, too.